Olga Shishko

Descripción del Profesional del arte

Curadora jefa del departamento de Cinema and Media Art del Pushkin Museum. Olga Shishko graduated from the Department of History and Theory of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow. Art historian, curator, teacher. Organizer of international events, festivals and exhibitions, exploring the problems of interaction between past and future, processes of innovation in the art of the 20th and 21st century. Head of the Department of Film and Media Art at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (since 2016). A member of ICOM (since 2008) and Russian Filmmakers Union (since 2001). Established MediaArtLab Centre for Art and Culture together with Alexey Isaev in 2000. Curator of «Pro&Contra» International Symposium for Media Culture (Moscow, 2000, 2011, 2012), art director of MIFF Media Forum Moving Image Festival (since 2006). Author and curator of «Projections of the Avant-Garde» project («Innovation» Prize 2016). Curator of exhibitions: «House of Impressions. Classic and Contemporary Media Art» and «House of Impressions. Wandering with a Troubadour» (2016, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts), «Mocumentary: Reality is not Enough» (2013, MMOMA), «Video Holes: I Do Not Know What It Is I Am» (2012, Manege Exhibition Hall), «Immersions: Towards the Tactile Cinema» (2012, Ekaterina Foundation), «Expanded Cinema — 1, 2, 3» (2011-2013, MMOMA, Garazh), «Gary Hill. Spectator» (2010, GMG Gallery), «Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe after the Fall of the Berlin Wall» (2010, MMOMA). Editor of books and collected essays: «Projections of the Avant-Garde» (Manege, ArtGuide, Moscow, 2015), «The Mythology of Media. The Experience of Historical Description of an Artist's Biography: Alexey Isayev. (1960-2006)» (NLO, 2013), «Expanded Cinema— 1, 2, 3» (Moscow, 2011-2013), «Immersions: Towards the Tactile Cinema» (Moscow, 2012), «Anthology of Russian Media Art» (Moscow: Russian Video Art, 2001).